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Friday, August 2, 2024

Understanding Heidegger's Being and Time

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Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, "Being and Time," delves into the fundamental question of Being, a concept he argues has been ...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

What is Philosophy: A Brief Note

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Literally meaning, “the love of wisdom”, most of (western) philosophy started out as an eminently practical activity in Ancient Greece⇁it wa...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Aesthetics and Public Administration: A Post-structuralist Perspective

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Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and, hence, serves as the foundation of the philosophy of art. Ana...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Rousseau's Critique of Modern Civilization

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's critique of modern civilization is contained in two essays, "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" and ...
Friday, June 21, 2024

An Analysis of "The Man Who Sleeps"

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 “ To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Thomas Kuhn: On the Philosophy of History of Science

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In the late nineteenth century, a divide started to emerge in western philosophy: first, the British and American “analytic philosophy”, whi...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Marx, Lacan and Deleuze: A Reconcilation

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Karl Marx's analysis of the mode of production and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theories offer profound insights into the workings...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Capitalist Realism, Control Societies and Mental Health

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In contemporary society, the pervasive influence of capitalism extends beyond the economic realm into the psychological well-being of indivi...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

What Marx takes from Hegel?

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Karl Marx, one of the most influential thinkers in history, was profoundly shaped by the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Although Ma...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

How the Rich Get Rich?

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The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few is a persistent and growing phenomenon in modern society. Understanding how the rich get r...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Ideoligical Reproduction of Capitalism: Schools and Colleges

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The critique that schools and colleges primarily serve to mold individuals into compliant 9-5 workers is not new. This view contends that ed...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Marx-Engels Introductory Reading List

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In a capitalist society where most hours of an individual are lost in work just to ensure one's survival, not everyone has the privelage...
Monday, October 23, 2023

On Marx's Alienation

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Karl Marx, a towering figure in the realm of social theory, introduced the concept of alienation as a multifaceted phenomenon impacting indi...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

On Antonio Negri's "Empire"

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Antonio Negri's seminal work, "Empire," offers a profound analysis of the contemporary global order, challenging conventional ...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

Thoughts on Ideology and Master-Slave Morality

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“Suffering and hardwork are necessary for a good life”, “We should learn to adapt easily to fit in different environments” and other stateme...
Sunday, July 2, 2023

Hauntology and Lost Futures

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In his work, The Ghosts of My Life, which is a collection of writings, the author Mark Fisher argues that we are haunted by futures that fai...
Friday, June 30, 2023

General Concepts of Psychoanalysis & Misconceptions

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This essay summarizes the major concepts of psychoanalysis, a revolutionary theoretical framework that psychologist Sigmund Freud developed ...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

A Critical Analysis of "The Story of Stuff"

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The Story of Stuff is a short animated documentary about the lifecycle of material goods. Although, from a shallow watching of the documenta...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

On the Meaning of Life from a Socio-political Perspective

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When someone asks the question, “What is the purpose of (human) life?”, they usually do so from an individualistic perspective, and in this ...
Monday, June 12, 2023

A Critical Analysis of Frozen (2013)

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“The whole Walt Disney ideology eats out of your hand with these pretty little sentimental creatures. For my own part, I believe that behind...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

A Socio-philosophical Analysis of American Psycho (2000)

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American Psycho was released in 2000 and is based on a novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis (1991). The film is a satire on ‘80s yupp...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Althusser's Concept of Ideology: Unmasking the Structures of Power

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In his essay, " Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses ", Louis Althusser presents a thought-provoking analysis of ideology an...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

On the Co-existence of Modernity and Tradition

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Modernity and tradition are often seen as antagonistic forces, especially in the non-western world, which might be due to the western origin...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

An Analysis of Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez

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This is a 1656 painting called "Las Meninas" by the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, Diego Velazquez:
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

The Post-Structuralist Reading List

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Post-structuralism, commonly also referred to post-modernism, is a school of thought in the humanities and social sciences, that developed i...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Reading List on Freud

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Sigmund Freud, the revolutionary psychologist and his theoreticla framework called Psychoanalysis, are generally misunderstood by contempora...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

YouTube Channels for Accessible Theory Content

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During the COVID crisis, many YouTube channels providing accessible content on critical theory and philosophy have emerged due to the heigth...
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